Status:
COMPLETED
Auditory Temporal Processes in Aging
Lead Sponsor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Conditions:
Auditory Perceptual Disorders
Aging Problems
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-85 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Older people experience great difficulty understanding speech, especially accented English, and this problem is expected to increase with the influx of immigrants who provide services to the elderly p...
Detailed Description
This research program in speech perception and auditory psychophysics examines the hypothesis that many of the predominant difficulties in speech understanding of elderly listeners are related to unde...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age and hearing sensitivity:
- Younger listeners (18-40 years) with normal hearing;
- Older listeners (65-80 years) with normal hearing;
- Older listeners (65-80 years) with bilateral, mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss.
- High School Diploma,
- native speaker of English (based on self-report)
- normal middle-ear function (based on tympanometry)
- normal cognitive function (based on score on Montreal Cognitive Assessment)
- good-to-excellent word recognition scores (based on Northwestern University Test # 6 word recognition scores presented in quiet at suprathreshold levels).
Exclusion
- non-native speaker of English,
- motor and/or speech disorders that prevent participant from providing a time-locked response,
- presence of middle ear disease or conductive hearing loss,
- presence of severe or profound hearing loss,
- presence of poor word recognition scores,
- cognitive impairment.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 18 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 30 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
82 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03468660
Start Date
January 18 2018
End Date
June 30 2020
Last Update
March 14 2022
Active Locations (1)
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University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, United States, 20742